Season of Change

As with all things in life, things change. And God uses change for our good…to grow us, to make our roots stronger, to give other people opportunities to grow, to teach us and to remind us of who He is and that He is in control. Pruning is often painful. It doesn’t look how we want it to look. We hate cutting back in order to be stronger. It’s not in our nature. But any good gardener knows, it’s necessary! Well, Give Amore is in a pruning season.

It is with a sad (but trusting God) heart, that I let you know that Heather Duncan, a vital member of our incredible Give Amore team will be stepping away from her work with us. We don’t know what He has planned for her, or for us, but we know He has great plans for us all-to prosper us, to give us a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). 

The sad part for me really comes from just truly adoring Heather and her heart to serve. She’s helped us so much and was an answer to years of prayer I had. I saw God provide. I know he can do it again! But she will be missed by us and our team tremendously! She’s not abandoning us but she is transitioning her work over to us and that leaves a huge hole to fill for us all. She was the best darn travel partner for 3 trips to Kenya filled with so much adventure, highs, lows, tears, laughter and so many front row seats to miracles. Lost/held hostage luggage, missed connections and being rerouted to Ghana, camping in the Masai Mara, “sliding in faith”, jiggers, “meeting men about dogs” (don’t ask ☺), are just a favorite of our adventures! These kind of experiences and friendships are rare and she’s been a true joy to me and to all of our Kenyan family who adore her too. If you’ve noticed our website organization with photos posted and organized for all of our events/activities/children, you can thank her! She’s truly amazing.

I say all of this to let you know there’s a HUGE void right now for Give Amore until God works out what our next season will look like. For me, it’s hard to imagine anyone filling her shoes. I prayed for years for her and one day she literally just showed up! I know God can do it again! But we wait! If you’d like to be a part of our ministry, we can use you! We need help with website/photo organization, mailchimp, social media, fundraising, future trip planning and more! Please reach out to me if God has put a tug on your heart to be a bigger part of what we are doing! We can use all gifts, talents, time and treasures! 

As always, we want to thank you for your support through prayer, financial giving, social media sharing and more! For over 5 years, Give Amore has been able to accomplish so much because of the combined effort of many doing what they can! We are in awe to see how 

God continues to provide and sustain us! We trust that this pruning process will cause us to bear even more fruit. 

Christa Horst

Founding Director

Give Amore 

A few housekeeping items: 

1. I wanted to make sure everyone has received their Tax Statement from Women’s Non-Profit Alliance (our 501c3 umbrella). If you have not, please email me at christa@giveamore.org and I can email that to you.

2. We are finally caught up from our December activities and have uploaded all the photos of the children from December as well as our most recent Made with Amore graduates and our newest well! We post these so you can see your sponsored children grow and thrive and so you can see how your generous funds are used. We have full transparency and want you to feel confident in knowing your funds are used how you intended them. 

   1. Children photos can be found here: http://www.giveamore.org/children-profiles

   2. Well photos can be found here: http://www.giveamore.org/clean-water

   3. Distribution photos can be found here: http://www.giveamore.org/sponsor-a-child

   4. Made with Amore sewing school photos can be found here: http://www.giveamore.org/sewing-program